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I Would Be Burned As A Witch

This morning when I woke up the sun was shining, the sky was blue and it looked for all the world like a perfect summer day. Except I had the excruciating pain in my spine, which always means that it is going to rain (if it isn’t already raining.)

I told my dog that it was going to rain and he looked at me scoffingly. I know he thought I was just trying to get out of taking him outside.

But it is now raining.

And apparently I didn’t think of anything else to blog about since I’m blogging about my old-lady rheumatism.

Writers’ Advice

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
— William Faulkner